While Ms. Fleming has been nurturing her singing voice, she has also been heeding her inner voice, which in 1998, a time of crisis, got battered down and faint.
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Time and time again he had come to the precipice of his crowning moment, only to the battered down by a certain Spanish Gladiator.
The Chinese rage was hypocritical in a country where hundreds of thousands of prostitutes blatantly ply their wares -- in Zhengzhou last year, an army of prostitutes practically battered down my hotel room door as I cowered inside.
So those were the doors that this crazed soldier battered down, before he shot women and children, gathered their bodies into a pile and set them on fire.
No sooner was the door closed than it was battered down and fell into the room.
It uprooted trees, battered down utility poles, damaged homes and cars, closed roads and knocked out street and traffic lights.
You would expect countries battered down by such calamities to grow more slowly than the average, so the correlation between aid and slow growth is false.
After some of the family members fled into the home, the officers battered down the front door, and shouted racial insults before leaving, according to the suit.
The researchers also insisted that the new levees could be battered down again if the corps did not armor them against erosion with concrete, rocks or other materials.
The state of it could have made Superman weep: its folding door swung unhinged, its shelf was battered down and its frame was dilapidated.
